Brooklyn man cleared after 27 years behind bars for wrongful murder conviction

A Brooklyn man who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit was officially exonerated Monday, when a Queens judge overturned his conviction to thunderous applause. Felipe Rodriguez, 54, was charged with the 1987 Queens slaying of Maureen McNeill Fernandez when he was a 25-year-old auxiliary NYPD officer — based...

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